SOUTH OF BAGHDAD — In a valley sculpted by man, between the palms and roses, lies a vast marble and steel city known as Al-Tuwaitha.

In the suburbs about 18 miles south of the capital's suburbs, this city comprises nearly 100 buildings — workshops, laboratories, cooling towers, nuclear reactors, libraries and barracks — that belong to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission.

Some of the devices contain high levels of radiation and could be potentially used in a "dirty bomb," said David Albright, a former IAEA inspector and president of the Institute for Science and International Security.

At least the WA Compost got that part right, of course buried at the end of the article.

BTW, I wish they'd stop looters from carting off computers here and in other ministry buldings throughout the country. Wouldn't those hard drives contain records, personnel lists, etc. that we should know about?

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posted on 04/10/2003 11:02:42 AM PDT
by PoisedWoman
(Fed up with the liberal media)

At the Pentagon News Briefing Brit Baier (sp?) raised a question about this find and the Briefers pleaded ignorant about it!

Then Linda Vesser (sp?) later interviewed a former UN Weapons inspector about this find and the facility. He says it is very interesting but we need to be patient and it definitely needs some very careful examination!

As long as it's only the story that explodes, that will be fine. If a "work product" of this site does likewise, say in Dallas or Houston, that will be another thing entirely. I suppose there are those would still say it was a "Zionist" plot, and/or the US did it themselves. Or better yet, just a Hollywood special effect, like those Abrams tanks in the traffic circle near the Palistine Hotel. :)

Hey over at Du they are sayng that this is a fraud. Dontchaknow the engineers came in pumped out all the water excavated the tunnels and brought in all the radioactive materials to "trump-up" charges of nuclear development....

Semper Delerious

Delerious, delusional........... I can think of a few more choice adjectives to describe the "opinions" of the DU-ers.

That card doesn't sound too Christmassy to me, but there is a Christian minority in Iraq... mostly Chaldean Christians, I believe. The Iraqi official Tariq Aziz is a "Christian."

Baghdad Bob is a Shia

Most everyone else in Hussein's government, though, are Sunni or not religious at all.

It's entirely possible that many of his scientists are Christians. Or were Christians- he may have killed a lot of them since he had them all under house arrest during the inspections phase.

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Oohrah, wow, just heard Col. Perkins, 2nd Brigade commander, 3rd ID just came on Fox... said they had one guy taken out on a stretcher but he had a shotgun on his lap... when some Iraqis fired on them, the guy on the stretcher picked up the shotgun and wasted them while he was being carried!

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